Understanding and Predicting the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current Critical Gaps and Recommendations (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix A: Description of the Loop Current
Appendix A: Description of the Loop Current
Pages 83-86
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. In each of the LC extension phases, the western side of the LC closely follows the eastern side of the Campeche Bank (the continental shelf extending north of the Yucatan Peninsula)
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. Many of these studies focused on limited surface drifter, shipboard, and aircraft observations of the horizontal and vertical structure of the currents in the upper 1,000 meters of the water column associated with long extensions of the LC into the Gulf, and with the LCEs that detach and propagate westward, some of which propagate along the central Gulf of Mexico escarpment where oil and gas exploration and production occur.
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and has been used as a design tool for establishing LCE eddy climatologies based on satellite and drifter observations of the eddy track and average swirl velocity. But kinematic LCE models, while useful for historical studies along past LCE trajectories, are not forecast models.
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when the sloped thermocline of the LC shifts across the sloped seafloor. Deep cyclonic circulation is in part driven in the mean when TRWs approach the more steeply sloped upper continental slope and reflect (Hamilton, 2009)
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